Up there, but slow

First I'll apologize for missing yesterday.  The browser didn't work well at all; I think Time Warner Cable was working on the whole system, or something, this morning all is well - to this point 2:28AM

U S Navy K Class blimp

  The Navy flew blimps from about World War I and continued until about 1960, they were used for maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare.  There were quite a number of bases on both coasts.
East coast stations ranged from Argentia Newfoundland south to near Corpus Christi Texas.  On the west coast they ranged from Tillimook Oregon to just north of San Diego in Tustin.  I may have missed one too, a lot of them are gone but a number of those are still with us, the hangars at least.
Let's take a look at the Tillimook one, it's now the Tillimook Air Museum, the construction may be unique.  The hangar was built with local timber, and the museum states that the large beams (over 1070 feet) are all one piece of Redwood, seems a bit off to me - but what do I know, at lease there are Redwood trees that tall, that's a known fact so probably it's true:

The interior now, those are some large planes in there.

During World War Two, each airship is about 250 feet long. (click to expand)

The exterior now.  That plane is "The Guppy" a four-engine prop plane with
a big belly, it was used by NASA to move rocket parts for the space program

The blimp Vodka One that I wrote about either on here or on Techapapi Pete is gone.  While flying on from Maine it was moored near Columbus Ohio and a storm broke it free from the mooring and it crashed into a ladies back yard.  It is being disassembled and returned to Limestone Maine for possible re-construction.

The "remains" of Vodka One, August 10, 2011